The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Feast / celebration
The week following Pascha
Day 1 of 7
The week following Pascha.
Feast / celebration
The Second Sunday of Easter, the octave day of Easter
Feast / celebration
The first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon falling on or after 21 March, by the Gregorian computus
Orthodox reckoning, from the Julian computus. The two coincide in some years and are five weeks apart in others.
Already Underway
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 8 of 50
Fast / abstinence
The whole of Ramadan, the ninth month
Day 23 of 29
Tabular reckoning, and stored as twenty-nine days so the month can never be reported as running into Eid al-Fitr. The month is twenty-nine or thirty days and begins on a sighted crescent in most communities.
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.